A large proportion of people out there seem to believe that backlinks form the backbone of a website's SEO strategy. Having high-quality and relevant backlinks has its advantages, but are they a necessity? We have talked about this topic many times in the past. Today, I'd like to share highlights from Googler John Mueller's recent hangout where he proved that backlinks, while important, are not a must for ranking well in Google!
John Mueller is the Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google. He shared an instance of a website ranking well without backlinks during his hangout at the GooglePlex with two of his colleagues. Here's the video of the hangout, with adjusted starting position.Someone asked at the 26 minutes and 3 seconds mark, why does Google use links for ranking at the level they do. He said, Google should use other means to rank sites. Of course, he knows they do use other factors but his point was why do they place so much weight on links.
John Mueller answered that saying they do have tons of other factors outside of just links.
John then said he has a friend of his who is “back home” in Zurich, his friend just put up a new web site for the local neighborhood. The new site does not have any links at all and over 300 pages are indexed and pages are ranking and they are getting a lot of traffic from search.
No one ever linked to the site ever, he said, but they did submit sitemaps to Google and they have an RSS feed.
The web site does fairly well without any links at all, John said. So it is not the case you absolutely need links to rank, he added. John did say that links are "obviously" it is part of Google’s ranking factors, but it isn’t something Google only relies on.
We know a year ago, Matt Cutts said Google did try turning off links in their ranking algorithm and the results were horrible. We also know that Yandex, the huge Russian search engine, did remove links from a niche segment in their ranking algorithm when that segment was spammed to death.
With that being said, let's not forget the importance of backlinks. But the point here is, there are many other factors you need to be focusing on as well.
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Thanks for this article, hope backlinks wouldn't be the most important in SEO factor.
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I mean I want this floating attach of the "LEFT" of the article itself, NOT left of the windows, and also it shouldn't stay in front of the article when you decrease the size of windows like this, http://bloggertricks-testblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/this-is-how-peacful-land-turned-into.html?showComment=1423060497525#c1667721823001659069
As you can see when I resize the window the article would be covered by the "Floating Social".
Hope you can help me out on this,
Thank you for the help!!